# BCH Reusable Address Proposal
BIP-???
v0.4.3, further limit number of inputs
@im_uname, with material from Mark Lundeberg, plus discussion with Chris Pacia, Amaury Séchet, Shammah Chancellor, Jonathan Silverblood and Josh Ellithorpe. Additional editing from Freetrader, Emergent_reasons and Jonald Fyookball.
# Introduction
**Problem statement**
Most of the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem today runs on payments to straight addresses that are hashes of public keys, whether in simple P2PKH or scripted P2SH. Addresses are pseudonymous, and can provide a good - though imperfect - level of privacy if the receiver uses a fresh address to transact every time. Despite the existence or proposal of various alias/handle systems, there still exists a major problem in that users have to make compromises between usability, privacy, security, recoverability and trustlessness.
**Solution**
We propose a new alias system that would allow senders to generate a fresh address for any recipient with a handle. Communicating the existence of the transaction happens on-chain --actually embedded in the transaction itself, without using OP_RETURN. This is accomplished by combining the Elliptic-curve Diffie-Helman properties of bitcoin keys with a simple grinding system, resulting in a byte-prefix that can be found by scanning while also hiding within an acceptable anonymity set.
This draft reusable address format, if widely adopted, seeks to provide a major improvement over existing systems in terms of net gain in all five areas, as well as more flexibility in choosing desirable compromises depending on usecases under one common format.
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